We see some fascinating geckos at night in the oasis Tarmguist near Guelmim in southwestern Morocco. This ground-dwelling species, Stenodactylus mauritanicus or Mauritanian Thin-toed Gecko, lacks adhesive pads on the toes because it does not live on vertical surfaces. We will not find it in loose sand, but rather on hardened ground as we can see. It is bright and quite colourful. Notice the extremely beautiful iris of its eye! In one picture the gecko is cleaning the eyes with the tongue! Only very few geckos have movable eyelids: They are in the family Eyelid Geckos, Eublepharidae, which I have previously presented here (Coleonyx mitratus). Stenodactylus mauritanicus is a small species with a SVL of less than 45 mm. Its snout is relatively convex. This is a female because there is no bulge on the underside just behind the cloaca. My flash partly illuminates the skin on the side of the body! I think the female contains eggs. The distribution covers North Africa, south to Western Sahara. In Morocco this gecko basically occurs on the southeastern side of the Atlas Mountains. In the south it reaches the Atlantic Ocean and in the northeast it nearly reaches the Mediterranean Sea. These observations have been made shortly after midnight.